Raymond Weeks, Ph.D. was an American

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 philologist and phonetician, born at Tabor, Iowa

Tabor, Iowa

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. He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover in 1887 and from Harvard

Harvard University

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 in 1890. In 1897 he took his Ph.D. at Harvard

Harvard University

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. In 1910 he founded, in collaboration with H. A. Todd

Henry Alfred Todd

Henry Alfred Todd, Ph. D. was an American Romance philologist, born at Woodstock, Ill. He was educated at Princeton , and at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, , and at Johns Hopkins University , where he taught for several years. He held the chair or Romance languages at Stanford, 1891-93, and became...

 and other scholars, the Romanic Review, and he became general editor of the "Oxford French Series."

He wrote numerous articles in Old French Literature, and was assistant editor on the New Standard Dictionary (1913). His works include:

• Origin of the Covenant Vivien (1902)
• La Chevalerie Vivien, facsimile edition (1909)
• The N.E.A. Phonetic Alphabet (1912), with J. W. Bright and C. H. Grandent